Specialist QA Engineer

Job purpose: 

The candidate will be responsible to ensure that a product is completely stable and . this needs to be accomplished by working closely with QA Lead and team, Development & Portfolio teams through early design of test plan, test cases, automation and reporting results to the concerned team for the assigned projects/products.

Minimum requirements: 

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Software Testing. 
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in test automation in Selenium with Core Java using standard frameworks (Hybrid, Keyword, TestNG). 
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, software QA methodologies, tools and processes. 
• Solid understanding of OOPs concepts 
• Experience in API Testing using SoapUI, Postman, Rest assured; or Database Testing skills with SQL 
• Experience in Performance testing tools - Jmeter 
• Experienced with version control systems like SVN, Git. 
• Know-how to set up Continuous Integration tools will be an advantage. 
• Knowledge or working experience of agile methodology 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional remote teams. 
• Self-starter and proactive with a strong sense of urgency to get the job done on time with quality. 
• Demonstrate ability to learn new skills and improve upon current skills quickly within a continually changing, challenging environment.
• Review and analyze business requirements, user stories and architecture diagrams 
• Gain product and business understanding and apply it in testing activities to improve test coverage and identify defects
• Develop and execute test plan, test cases with the requisite details and capture test evidence. 
• Test planning and execution with focus to ensure end to end testing considering enhancements, impacted areas 
• Impacted areas analysis and enhancing manual, automation regression test packs 
• Analyze, plan and prepare test data to be used for manual, automated test execution 
• Adherence to the established processes and best practices. 
• Identify defects and track them through the defect life cycle. 
• Develop, Maintain, and debug automation scripts using the existing TestNG based framework for Change and Regression. 
• Enhance framework and create reusable methods on need basis. 
• Conduct effective self-review of own deliverables and peer reviews. 
• Publish test status reports on-demand or as per defined milestones in line with the established framework. 
• Work with diverse, distributed teams and collaborate with internal teams.
• Mentor fellow Quality engineers, evangelizing best practices of testing, automation and technical processes.